LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:1 January 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Study of the Worries of Master Students (M.Ed.) Towards
Researches in Private Sector Universities, KPK, Pakistan

Nasrullah Khan, Kiramat Shah, Nazish Farid
Sumera Gul and Fatima Shams

Abstract

This study was an attempt to assess the attitudes of 100 randomly selected postgraduate students of teacher education programs from private universities in Pakistan. Students often rate courses in research methods negatively and regard them as difficult. Data were collected from the sample respondents through a questionnaire. Results indicated that very few students having positive attitudes towards research. Research is said to be the significant factor for technological advancement, social development and institutional fame. For quality research positive attitude towards research is a prerequisite which itself is influenced by different factors including the cost of research, institutional research facilities and time. The presents study is an effort to determine whether or not the institutional fees have any effect upon the students’ attitude towards research. The study sought to determine the university graduate students’ attitudes towards the learning of the research methods course, since attitudes influence students’ performance at a discipline. The research findings indicated that very few students had positive attitudes towards the learning of research methods and seemed more interested to study the discipline. The methods of instruction used seemed to influence the attitudes of the students. Researchers have to cope with the available resources as no help or guidance is provided to them. No researcher is born with fundamental research skills but they learn those skills from others usually from their supervisors or seniors who have gone through the same procedures while they conducted their own research study but what happens is that no one readily guides them. The study recommends that the instructional process should be managed in appropriate ways, for example which provoke critical thinking in students, so as to create positive attitudes towards the quantitative research course to teach them research writing and research publications.

Keywords: Attitudes, Research, Anxiety, Master Student, universities.

Introduction

In the fast moving world research has become important intellectual equipment for the human beings to change their life style according to the needs and necessities of the society. Research opens new frontiers in all the fields like medicine, agriculture, space, business, and also in Education. One of the important objectives of teacher education is to create awareness and understanding of importance of research in the classroom. Thus, Action research became a part of the syllabus where in, the students are expected to prepare action plans and implement the same during their practice teaching sessions. The main aim of the Master in Education course is to provide capabilities of serving community in general and developing research attitude and skills among the students in specific. These students in future have to promote interest towards research among the students when they take up their jobs as teacher educators.

Research is principally a way to counter the queries aroused by curiosity. Research is a system of investigation to augment knowledge and understanding. In some graduate and under graduate courses research methodology is a study subject; still students are unacquainted with the significance of research and the intentions of including it as a subject in curriculum. Most of the students like to do research work but majority of them tend to avoid it as research methodology has been found a complicated subject to grip over. To choose an entirely new topic and work on it within available resources and without proper supervision is not an easy task and in such a situation the research seems to be the most difficult subject which cannot be qualified easily. People usually found it difficult mainly on the basis of difficulties they encounter while conducting research.

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Nasrullah Khan
Lecturer & PhD Education Scholar
Abasyn University Peshawar

Kiramat Shah, PhD Education Scholar
Nazish Farid, PhD Education Scholar
Sumera Gul, MPhil Education Scholar
Fatima Shams, MPhil Education Scholar
fatima.shams123@yahoo.com
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